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What do you do when materials are scarce?

Posted by CustomMade in Concepts & Buyer Guides, For Customers, For Makers, The Pro Shop, The Wide World of Custom Making on July 15, 2011

Have you ever experienced a time when one of your key materials became nearly impossible to source? A recent New York Times article, “When Fashion Meets Fishing, the Feathers Fly,” chronicles how the explosion of a new trend for women to use fly-tying feathers as hair accessories

has left fisherman without an essential material.

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Selling your custom work: from start to finish

Posted by CustomMade in For Makers, The People Behind CustomMade, The Pro Shop on July 11, 2011

Author Melanie Quinn, Business Development and Inside Sales Associate at CustomMade, shares her experience on sealing the deal…when she’s not selling she’s playing sports, painting the town red, and writing poetry.

New Leads:

Be Persistent: Every lead is a possible sale. If the person took the time to contact you, the interest is [...]

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What it means to create products “Made in America”

Posted by CustomMade in For Makers, The Pro Shop, The Wide World of Custom Making on July 4, 2011

Back in April,  Patrick Kennedy of Superior Woodcraft had the opportunity to hear President Obama speak about how America needs to be manufacturing more products to sell to the rest of the world. President Obama visited Gamesa to highlight his goal that 80 percent of the nation’s energy comes from clean sources by 2035.

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Designer Kara Angotti and Patrick Kennedy integrate social media into daily life

Posted by CustomMade in For Makers, The Pro Shop on June 20, 2011

Kara Angotti of KO Angotti, a woman-owned interior design and energy audit firm, recently visited Superior Woodcraft in Bucks County, PA. “Now it’s not every day that I have an interior designer/energy auditor/blogger come for a visit; so this had me thinking about how Kara’s social media work is completely integrated into her interior design [...]

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Your Personal Brand on Facebook

Posted by CustomMade in For Makers, The Pro Shop on June 13, 2011

This idea first appeared in an article on Mashable.com by Ekaterina Walter: 10 Tips for Posting on Your Brand’s Facebook Page. For the full original article please click here.

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Birdie Miller’s EuroButt: the perfect hinge solution for cabinetmakers

Posted by CustomMade in For Makers, The Pro Shop on June 1, 2011

The EuroButt II is a new take on the traditional butt hinge which preserves the classic, decorative look of the traditional hardware without the assembly hassle or the labor time of the butt hinge. It was invented by Stockton, NJ-based cabinetmaker Birdie Miller to solve recurring design and installation problems related to hardware selection, specifically [...]

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Ask an expert – wood products and tips – Part II

Posted by CustomMade in For Makers, The Pro Shop on May 23, 2011

“I actually think that our greatest challenge is the rising cost of doing business, in the form of regulation, taxes, and illogical market subsidies for competing products. Unfortunately, turning this around requires the wood industry professional to get involved in local, state, and perhaps even federal politics and most of us are in the wood business because we hate that stuff.”

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Wood Research Expert Discusses Sourcing and Costs

Posted by CustomMade in For Makers, The Pro Shop on May 16, 2011

Chuck D. Ray, Associate Professor, Wood Operations Research, The Pennsylvania State University and Contributor to Wood Pro and Go Wood, visits different wood production companies and different types of wood operations all of the time – he talks about wood sourcing, and the issues small businessmen face as raw materials costs rise, and lends some useful tips…

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Tracking your site using Google Analytics

Posted by Seth in For Makers, The Pro Shop on November 8, 2010

I sometimes moonlight over at FineWoodworking.com sharing my marketing advice with the readers of our ProShop blog. It occurred to me that our CustomMade viewers might like to hear some of the same marketing tips, so here we are! Let me know what you think. Do you track your site already? If you tried this, [...]

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The new rules of marketing for woodworkers with Alison Heath!

Posted by Seth in For Makers, The Pro Shop on August 18, 2010

In my journeys as the resident blogger for CustomMade, I have come across an enormous amount of fellow bloggers. Some are completely irrelevant, some are written by woodworkers, some are interior designers, craftspeople, etc. This time, I got to touch base with someone who is spreading a bit of a different message, with [...]

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